had a very enjoyable day at high point. the water was high enough from all the rain to enable a fairly easy boat launch at the south ramp. we were one of two cars at the south ramp and about 11 cars on the north ramp so I would bet that the north ramp would've been better. the goose **** is terrible.
we motored down towards the dam and fished along the north shore line and stumbled on some very nice jumbo perch - 12 to 13 inchers!! - got three within the first hour and a half - plus some 10-11 inchers that looked small when placed next to the big ones. fished around for the next 4 hours or so and ended up with a dozen legal perch (9 inch min) - see photo.
also got some pretty nice crappie - all from one spot, none elsewhere, as well as quite a few gills (I have never caught a decent sized gill from this lake), a LM bass and 3 pike maybe 18 inches.
we were fishing on the outside of the weeds near deeper water in about 13-15 ft of water. most all other boats were inside of us throwing top lures as anything running deep would snag weeds. the few people we talked with all caught a few bass and pike but nothing spectacular or very many of them.
we used mainly large fatheads and some creek chubs - and crawlers also but it seemed the worms attracted too many gills - but we did get a number of perch on worms.
note that we had to have caught at least 2 dozen short (8.5 inch) perch - the future looks good.
phish
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